Originally a dataset of 952 posts (11 variables) of the Eyewatch Ballarat facebook page were pulled on 16 May 2018.
After cleaning and tidying the data, we removed (105) posts containing ‘vicpol’ in the link. The follow graphs were created from the remaining 847 posts.
# A tibble: 1 x 6
likes_mean comments_mean shares_mean mean_posts n_YearMonths n_posts
<dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <int> <int>
1 26.3 4.89 21.4 24.2 34 823
There is high variability in number of posts per month. On average 24.3 posts are made per month exluding the first 4 months. Each post, on average recieves 26.3 likes, 4.9 comments and 21.4 shares.
Posts are much more common on weekdays than weekends as expected. Posts are not lowest around early morning hours, suggesting a timezone offset. It looks like there might be a higher proportion of posts on hours “01” and “04”, suggesting a systamatic process possibly calendar event ortimed release of news.
Photos followed by links generate the most likes. Note that the y axis is likes and not likes/post.
The data is mostly present. story, message, link are the variables by descending missingness.
page: eyewatchballarat pull time: 1.04 min raw dim: 952 obs x 11 var clean dim: 95 2obs x 26 var pull time: 5:30pm 16 May 2018
Comments and likes by post age
Newer posts appear to receive more comments than older posts. Older posts may or may not receive for likes (hard to tell at this color and transparency)